Musicianship

The Musicianship skill is required to use the Provocation, Discordance, and Peacemaking barding skills.

Instruments

For the bonuses from crafted and magical instruments, see Modifiers § Instruments.

An instrument is required to make use of the Musicianship, Provocation, Discordance, and Peacemaking skills. Instruments can be obtained in several ways:

• Purchased from a Bard NPC.
• Crafted with the Carpentry skill.
• Dropped as Magical Loot from creatures.

Instruments
Bamboo Flute	Drums	Harp	Lute	Standing Harp	Tambourine
Gemshorn	Hurdy-Gurdy	Psaltery	Sackbut	Shawm	Vielle

Mechanics

A player's Effective Barding Skill in Discordance, Peacemaking, and Provocation is capped by their Musicianship skill.

A player cannot receive more skill bonuses than their Musicianship skill allows (i.e., a player with 25 Musicianship can only gain 25 Effective Barding Skill from instruments, supplemental skills, Lyric Aspect Armor, etc.).

A player's Effective Barding Skill is calculated as:

(Base Barding Skill + Instrument Skill Bonuses + Instrument Slayer Bonuses + Skill Slayer Bonuses + Lyric Aspect Armor Bonus + Mastery Chain Link Bonus)

The Barding Success Chance formula is:

(Effective Barding Skill / 100%) - (CreatureDifficultyValue * 1.0%)

The Minimum Barding Success Chance formula is:

(33% * (Effective Barding Skill / 100))

Boss Barding effects reduce a creature’s:

• Melee Attack Speed by 25%.
• Casting Speed by 25%.
• Ability Cooldown Rate by 25%.

Barding Skill Debuff Durations:

Barding Skill Debuff Durations
Skill	Duration
Discordance	((Effective Barding Skill / 100) * 60 sec)
Peacemaking	((Effective Barding Skill / 100) * 30 sec)
Provocation	((Effective Barding Skill / 100) * 30 sec)

Bard Songs

• Players can use Barding skills to target the ground and activate a Barding Song.
• When activated, the effects will only apply to:
  • The player.
  • Any green-flagged allies.
  • Party members within 50 tiles.
• Players can only benefit from the highest-value song within range.
• A player’s Effective Barding Skill for songs is capped by their Musicianship skill. For example, 70 Musicianship and 90 Provocation would mean the player has 70 Effective Provocation.
• Casting a Barding Song has a 10-second cooldown, separate from other Barding skill uses.

The Barding Songs:

Barding Songs
Skill	Effect
Discordance	Provides a (5% * (Effective Barding Skill / 100)) Damage Resistance bonus to Players and their Followers
Peacemaking	Provides a (5% * (Effective Barding Skill / 100)) Healing Amounts Received Bonus to Players and their Followers
Provocation	Provides a (5% * (Effective Barding Skill / 100)) Damage Bonus to Players and their Followers
All AoE Barding Song Buffs durations are 15 minutes
Casting a Barding Song has a 10 second cooldown that is independent of normal bard skill usage

Barding Breaks

While a 'non-Boss creature is Provoked or Pacified, every second there is a chance they will suffer a Barding Break based on the formula:

((CreatureDifficulty / 100) * 1%)

The Barding Break duration is:

(CreatureDifficulty / 10) seconds

Effects of a Barding Break:

• A **"Barding Break"** message appears above the creature.
• The creature’s Provocation and Peacemaking effects immediately end.
• The creature becomes immune to Provocation and Peacemaking for the duration.
• While affected, the creature suffers:
  • -50% Attack Speed.
  • -50% Casting Speed.
  • +50% delay on Abilities (same as Boss Barding Effects).
• When the Barding Break ends, the creature gains Aggro Priority towards the bard for 10 seconds.

Break Barrier Bonuses:

• Players attacking a creature affected by a Barding Break receive:
  • +20% Damage Bonus ((20% * (Highest Printed Barding Skill))).
  • +20% Damage Resistance.

Against Bosses, these bonuses are reduced to 50%.

Defensive Barding

• Defensive Barding applies only when a player is flagged in PvP.
• Players will receive Defensive Barding if they do not have Heat of Battle active.
• Defensive Barding provides:
  • Wrestling Skill Bonus: of ((Discordance Skill + Peacemaking Skill + Provocation Skill) / 2) to a max of 100 skill.
  • Magic Resist Skill Bonus:of ((Discordance Skill + Peacemaking Skill + Provocation Skill) / 2) to a max of 100 skill.
• Defensive Barding does NOT:
  • Contribute to skill requirements for Codexes, Grimoires, etc..
  • Grant any unique PvM bonuses (e.g., Wrestling Mana Refund, Magic Resist Siphon).
• If a player already has higher printed Wrestling or Magic Resist skill, the printed skill value will always take priority.

Training

Skill	Activity
0-50	Train from NPC
50-80	Play any instrument or use a Barding skill on creatures in New Player Dungeon.
80-120	Play any instrument or use a Barding skill on creatures at the Prevalia Zoo/Battletrainer.